NEW YORK – Elon Musk said that Twitter will not allow anyone who has been kicked off the site to return until it sets up procedures on how to do that, a process that will take at least a few weeks.
That would mean people banned from the site for violating Twitter’s rules for harassment, violence, or election and COVID-related misinformation will not be able to return before next Tuesday´s US midterm elections.
The pledge came after Musk, who took control of the social-media site last week after buying it for $44 billion, said in a tweet that he had met with a handful of civil-society leaders “about how Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies.”
Those attending the meeting asked Musk not to restore the banned users ahead of the midterms, said Jessica González, an attorney and co-CEO of the advocacy group Free Press who attended the meeting, AP reported.
The attendees – including leaders from the NAACP, Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change – also requested Twitter have a transparent process on how it plans to restore accounts.
Musk has publicly said that he would let former President Donald Trump back on the site, though Trump – who routinely touts his own platform Truth Social – has given no indication as to whether he will return.
González said the attendees also requested Twitter enforce election-integrity measures that are already in place, and encouraged him to hear from a diverse array of people – particularly racial minorities and those who´ve been targeted by hate and harassment campaigns.
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